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It's a slam-dunk case!
George Tenet / Professor
Iraq
Slam
Stupid
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Never break faith with the truth.
George Tenet / Professor
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I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.
George Tenet / Professor
Nature
Greek
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You deserve better from your entire government, all of us.
George Tenet / Professor
Government
Deserve
Deserve Better
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One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they [Al Qaeda] intend.
George Tenet / Professor
Als
Clouds
Mushrooms
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Foreign nations have begun to include information warfare in their war college curricula with respect to both defensive and offensive applications.
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War
College
Information
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By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.
George Tenet / Professor
Deals
Definitions
Deny
Enemy
Unclear
United States
Unknown
Definition
Enemies
Hidden
Reveal
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We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.
George Tenet / Professor
Als
America
Authority
Complicity
Verify
Al
Direction
Period
Iraqi
Operational
Qaeda
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To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.
George Tenet / Professor
Patience
Care
Careful
Discussion
Iraq
Patient
Thoughtful
Unfortunately
Rarely
Topic
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I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.
George Tenet / Professor
Asian
Convinced
Faces
People
United States
I Am May People
African
Alert
Attack
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The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.
George Tenet / Professor
Included
Presented
Text
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I still lie awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, that wasn't done to stop 9/11. To the 9/11 families, I said, you deserve better from your entire government. All of us.
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Awake
Deserve
Lie
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The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.
George Tenet / Professor
Culture
Drag
Officers
People
Telling The Truth
Stand Up
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Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.
George Tenet / Professor
Antipathy
Cooperation
Divergent
Iraq
Mutual
Royal
Royal Family
Sides
States
Tactical
Ties
Two Sides
Contacts
Ideologies
Saudi
Toward
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Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.
George Tenet / Professor
Kids
Curiosity
Policy
Responsibility
Teaching
Tough
Absolve
Actions
Questions
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You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that any more, well you know, there you go. Trust was broken.
George Tenet / Professor
Broken
Honor
The End Of The Day
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You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.
George Tenet / Professor
Trust
Broken
Honor
Reputation
Anymore
End Of The Day
Personal
The Only Thing
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As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.
George Tenet / Professor
War
Cold
Cold War
Depth
Expertise
Past
Powerful
Rebuilding
Analytical
Capabilities
Satellite
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When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.
George Tenet / Professor
Men
Agency
Cia
Class
Men And Women
Officers
Rebuilding
Recruit
Training
Years
Time Best History
Case
Central
Best Time History
Talented
Efforts
Graduating
Programs
Low
Putting
Unbelievably
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